Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-15
FIJI LATEST NEWS.

"A special to the Times from Vinitia. In
dian Territory, says: A terrible explosion o.
Cured to-day at Savanna in coal shaft No. =,
by which six miners were killed. A %rescuins
party was soon organized and sent down lnto
the mine, but they were overpowered bv gas
and twelve sufocated before they could be
taken out, making eighteen dead in all. The
mines are worked mostly by foreigners, and
most of the victims are Italians. Fuller par
tlculars have not yet been learned here.
Francis Gerry, u Fairfield, N. Y, clergy
man, Journalist, veterinary surgeon, and au-
thor of works on s%piritualism, died early yes
terday from the effects of the opium habit.
While he was on his d%eathbcdhis wife, Joseph
inc, daughter of Judge Griswold of the United
States District Court, died from tue same
cause in another boarding house, and her body
was sent to the morgue. =
w. A. Clark, registry clerk in the general
Postofice in New York City, who confessed to
the theft of $4,000 in bills recently, and was
released on $500 bail, has skipped for Can
ada. He had confessed to stealing about s25, :
QUO altogether.
-Bertic Whitcomb, a 14-year-old boy, re-
siding at Northwood, Iowa, was shot ycster-
day by Lis little cousin blowing a hole through
the back Of his head. mother case of didn't
know-it-was-loaded.
Commissioner Sparks, of the general land
Office, recommends that patents be issued to
the Northern Pacific Company for lands along
SO much of the road as lies between a point
near Duluth, in Minnesota, and the Missouri
River in Dakota, but states his opinion that no
lands shonld be patented to said company o.
any other portion of the road.
Tho Austrian Minister, Baron Gavera, was
presented by Secretary Bayard TO the Prcsi-
dent.
Theodore Frankson dropped dead Oh State
street, Chicago, with a bundle of Labor tickets
under his arm which lie intended to pcddlc ut
the polls.
The suspension of Josiah Caldwell, the
promoter of stock companies, has been an
nounced. His liabilities are said to be enor-
nous. Caldwell failed once before for
81, 900, 0l.
Charles limerick, owner of the limerick
Opera House in Peru, Ind, was killed recently
by Robert Miller for circulating damaging re-
ports concerning Miller's wife. Miller was
jailed.
Al the election recently held in Sioux Falls
the following ticket was elected: Mayor,
John I. Norton; Aldermen. Mark Bridge, Geo.
W. Lear, ]. G. Strapon, W. G. Goats and S. H.
Hnrd; clerk, W. II. Holt; assessor, H. Mavcry.
All except Norton, Bridge and Holt are new
men.
j Mrs. krause, the wife of II silk weaver at
Paterson, n. j., was taken i'll recently and ii
midwife was summoned. Mrs. krause suf-
fcred much pain and frequently begged her
husband to kill her. The midwife deserted
her, and no doctor was near at hand. Her
husband went to an adjoining room for a mo
ment, and while there the woman obtained a
revolver and shot herself i'll the right temple,
the bullet going through her brain. Physi-
clans were summoned at once, and an hour af-
terward Mrs. Krausc was delivered of healthy
twins. AS the bullet passed through lie,
brain there is no hope of her recovery.